I work for the Help Desk at my school board (I'm the only helpdesk person...). I answer the phone all the time saying "Help Desk, Matt speaking." and quite regularly I get asked immediately afterwards "is this the Help Desk?"
I find it very funny that the reporter says "... where he told them to press F5, doing so overloads the server forcing it to crash." Hmmmm pressing F5 overloads a server and crashes it???
I wonder.... couldn't paying this additional tax which is for the O??????? G???? be construed somehow (for legal purposes, at least) as a 'sponsorship'?
I feel that it's actually very disgusting that people do this. It can ruin it for everyone by retailers getting burned by activities such as this and deciding not to accept returns or similar decisions. I think it's just a matter of time before many companies decide to allow exchanges only and prohibit returns.
If they do adopt the policy of no returns and exchanges only, it should be explicitly signed at the point of sale so that everyone knows before they buy that they can exchange only and not return the products.
Where are these peoples' moral compass?
The TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) has day passes available at a rate of $8. This provides unlimited travel on all TTC routes (busses, streetcars and subways) for the entire day.
From the TTC website:
Unlimited* one-day travel on Saturdays**, Sundays and statutory holidays from the start of service until 5:30 a.m. the next morning, for a group of up to 6 people:
2 adults alone, or with up to 4 Children/Youths (Youth = *19 years of age or under).
or
1 adult alone, or with up to 5 Children/Youths (Youth = *19 years of age or under).
Federal governments can, and I believe many do, manage their Country-Code TLD, but what government do you propose to handle the main GTLDs like.com,.net, and.org?
To top it all off, most open APs also assign IPs to allow computers connecting to it to communicate using TCP. Analogous to the aforementioned girl saying "this is the way to my pussy" and pointing.
I fully agree. If I recall correctly, isn't there something in the law that says you have to take "reasonable precautions" or something along that line?
How was the guy supposed to know that he didn't intend for the AP to be open to everyone.
AP makers should force, once the device is connected for the first time, for it to go to a config page which outlines all the security settings (WEP, etc.)..... maybe then some people will start to understand security.
I work for my county's (Simcoe) school board, and while it's not post-secondary education, we do track a lot of information. However, my school board takes security very seriously. No system is exposed to the internet unless there's a really good reason, and everything is protected by multiple levels.
The Admin network is seperated by a VLAN from the student services network, which cannot talk to the Admin network at all. The admin network can contact specific systems on the student services network and all access is logged.
They also don't give out more privileges than absolutely necessary to do your job.
Even though I'm a co-op student, I still had to get the Criminal Background Check done and everything so that they know me, even though I've been an official employee for about 2-3 years.
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I work for the Help Desk at my school board (I'm the only helpdesk person...). I answer the phone all the time saying "Help Desk, Matt speaking." and quite regularly I get asked immediately afterwards "is this the Help Desk?"
Would the real AC please stand up ;)
I just tried this on my own webserver for www.coscore.com and for some reason, it didn't crash because the server is still up and running!
I find it very funny that the reporter says "... where he told them to press F5, doing so overloads the server forcing it to crash." Hmmmm pressing F5 overloads a server and crashes it???
.... but how about investing the money spent (probably millions) in making this gum into other areas?
I've always wanted to start my own city.....
I think it's about time that someone is standing up to the **AA's in the world!
I wonder.... couldn't paying this additional tax which is for the O??????? G???? be construed somehow (for legal purposes, at least) as a 'sponsorship'?
I feel that it's actually very disgusting that people do this. It can ruin it for everyone by retailers getting burned by activities such as this and deciding not to accept returns or similar decisions. I think it's just a matter of time before many companies decide to allow exchanges only and prohibit returns. If they do adopt the policy of no returns and exchanges only, it should be explicitly signed at the point of sale so that everyone knows before they buy that they can exchange only and not return the products. Where are these peoples' moral compass?
Wouldn't it be possible that people would come and use the free Wi-Fi instead of coming and paying to use the desktop computers?
From the TTC website:
Unlimited* one-day travel on Saturdays**, Sundays and statutory holidays from the start of service until 5:30 a.m. the next morning, for a group of up to 6 people:
2 adults alone, or with up to 4 Children/Youths (Youth = *19 years of age or under). or
1 adult alone, or with up to 5 Children/Youths (Youth = *19 years of age or under).
More info at http://www.toronto.ca/ttc
to see things not going to waste, like facilities not being used.
Federal governments can, and I believe many do, manage their Country-Code TLD, but what government do you propose to handle the main GTLDs like .com, .net, and .org?
To top it all off, most open APs also assign IPs to allow computers connecting to it to communicate using TCP. Analogous to the aforementioned girl saying "this is the way to my pussy" and pointing.
... the 'Default Gateway' at work.... ;)
I fully agree. If I recall correctly, isn't there something in the law that says you have to take "reasonable precautions" or something along that line?
How was the guy supposed to know that he didn't intend for the AP to be open to everyone.
AP makers should force, once the device is connected for the first time, for it to go to a config page which outlines all the security settings (WEP, etc.)..... maybe then some people will start to understand security.
... for every little thing we want to read.... User ID: slashdotreader Password: slashdot
oil is trading at $200/barrel
This may become reality soon enough..... (or maybe the oil companies want us to think that?)
Don't forget about the Minority Reports
First post. I probably fail it.
I work for my county's (Simcoe) school board, and while it's not post-secondary education, we do track a lot of information. However, my school board takes security very seriously. No system is exposed to the internet unless there's a really good reason, and everything is protected by multiple levels. The Admin network is seperated by a VLAN from the student services network, which cannot talk to the Admin network at all. The admin network can contact specific systems on the student services network and all access is logged. They also don't give out more privileges than absolutely necessary to do your job. Even though I'm a co-op student, I still had to get the Criminal Background Check done and everything so that they know me, even though I've been an official employee for about 2-3 years.
... especially when it's nothing at all!
This is great news and will hopefully discourage other hackers.
Actually, IIS in Windows 2000 Pro only accepts 2 connections at a time. Not sure about XP, but I believe it's the same.